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“O,
Our Master, what do you plan to do tomorrow?”
The
Sheikh says:
“I
know nothing about tomorrow or tonight because Allah said to me:
‘O
Baýezit! There are various prayers and services rendered to my Treasury.
If you wish to arrive before me, bring me something that is not already
with me.’
I
asked then:
‘O
Allah, the Merciful! The Almighty! What is there that is not with
you?’
Allah
said:
‘Hopelessness
and weakness, poverty and neediness, being offended and miserable are
not with me or in my Treasury. Because these are not the things I
need.’ Allah is the Undisturbed. Allah is Great. Allah is to be
praised with good words only. Allah’s will is an obligation upon the Türkmen.”
Ba_ezit
is a leading Türkmen figure in Islam. His thought is:
We
are simple and mortal human beings. We are human beings sent to the
world to live. We should live in line with high humanitarian principles
and follow the way of the great nation called the Türkmens; we should
make use of worldly benefits, keep our head high, make efforts and see
the beauties of life according to the same principles.
Our
great thinker, Magtymguly, is undoubtedly a great figure in the East. We
should look to Magtymguly as a proper example at every step we take.
Would it be proper for us to follow Magtymguly at this age in exactly
the way he did, in that he adopted the sufi way, waking at dawn and cry
and pray
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